New Zealand studies have identified up to 96% mismatch between the dimensions of school furniture and student body size. Poor posture in students using school furniture is considered to contribute to the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders. This paper describes the development of dynamic furniture designed to be appropriate for the sizes of students in years 1-13 (ages 5-17 years) and condu...

Abstract A core element of almost all educational improvement efforts is an intention to improve teacher practice in order enhance student- and system-level outcomes. To this end, a range strategies are deployed facilitate professional learning development, with great investments time, financial, human resources. However, the environments which teachers learn their impact on teachers’ implement...

To understand the implementation quality of a general education course at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, process evaluation was carried out for 14 lectures, with each lecture being observed by two observers. Results showed that the average level of program adherence was high (85.71 % ). High implementation quality of the program in the areas of student interest, classroom control, use of...

Higher education courses are increasingly created as student organized collections of interrelated modules. At the same time, frequent change of subject matter and knowledge in its background must be handled. Above and other factors created and recognized a need for efficient computer based course management. Conventional computer aided teaching methods are not suitable to organize, manage, and...

The emerging Flipped Classroom approach has been widely used to enhance teaching practices in many subject domains and educational levels, reporting promising results for enhancing student learning experiences. However, despite this encouraging body of research, the subject domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) teaching at K-12 education has not yet been explicitly research...

Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been widely advocated by a considerable number of applied linguists and English language teachers, its implementation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts has encountered a number of difficulties.  Reviewing the literature suggests that one of the reasons for unsuccessful implementation of CLT may be neglect of learners' beliefs in t...

Economic considerations and lack of adequate infrastructure impose unique design constraints on future classrooms of the developing world. Thus, future classrooms in underprivileged nations may differ significantly from their counterparts in the developed world. Classroom response systems (CRS) are an emerging technology for the future classroom. CRS are wireless, hand-held devices that help st...